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What if you need to integrate a Retail E-Commerce website with the powerful Dynamics AX ERP at backend to leverage numerous functional capabilities it offers in the areas like but not limited to Supply Chain Management. Then you are reading the right blog post! We can achieve it through exposing custom AIF services as web services on IIS using enhanced inbound ports via HTTP adapter. In this post, we’ll expose customers data in Dynamics AX 2012 persisted in CustTable to an external interface using web services.

To simplify things, we’ll create a read service operation and then test our custom AIF service exposed as a web service using .Net console application. Although this blog post uses C# consumer to consume the custom service but the same service can be consumed by any website development platforms like ASP.NET and the possibilities are limitless!